“SIMPLIFIED” SPELLING.
To the thoroughgoing iconoclast nothing could seem more promising than “simplified” spelling. Its advocates are vociferous, if not numerous, and written English, .it must be admitted, is a fearful and wonderful product of the evolution of speech plus prejudice. Yet how to reform it, except by slow anw minute stages, has puzzled all who are not radical on the subject. Consider, now, this recent announcement by Sydney Walton, executive secretary of the Simplified Spelling Society, concerning the charge that the society has a “fixed and final” scheme:—
We did not submit our secern az a ficst and fiienal thing, a tuumstoon on which Inters were chizeld for ever. We submit it az a haisis for discushon and encwiery; wo welcum sujestionz and impruuvments.
We (Chicago Record-Herald) can only hope that this touching appeal will cause “discnshon and encwiery.” It seems to need something in the way of response.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 69, 14 November 1912, Page 6
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